Do Lab Puppies Have Blue Eyes

I have a 4 month old akc beagle boy who still has his blue eyes I have no idea if this is genetic or if they will change yet, but they are the most beautiful eyes. He’s not a mix breed, if I can get a closeup of his eyes I will post it but Dodger’s eyes are amazing

Do lab puppies have blue eyes. I cant say it impossible for this to happen but it would be fairly unlikely that 2 truly purebred labs would produce a blue-eyed pup. It seems there is a controversial color coat in labs called silver-coated labs that have different colored eyes. Also some pups have lighter colored eyes that darken by 4-5 months of age. ALL puppies under the age of 3-4 months old have blue eye color. An older puppy or adult chocolate lab should NOT have blue eye color - if it does, then its not a purebred dog. 2 0.. NO Labs should never have blue eyes, below is the AKC's required color for their eyes. It takes awhile to uncover puppies’ “true” eye colors, which can range from brown to amber to the rare permanent blue color. At First Sight. Puppies’ eyes are closed for the first 8 to 14 days of their lives. Their eyes only begin to reveal themselves — and slowly open after that point. 2 Week Old Puppies. Some big changes have taken place during the last week of puppy development stages. 2 week old puppies will often have their eyes fully open, or at least partly open. Ears open at this point too, so your puppy will begin to hear. The Labrador puppies in this picture are two weeks olds. Two weeks old and the puppies eyes are.

I have always heard that all puppies eyes are blue at birth, then change as they "grow up". I went and played with a litter of black labs this weekend and their eyes were blue (they are 4 weeks). 05-15-2006, 08:58 PM #6 Pups with liver-colored coats tend to have a gene for amber eyes. Amber eyes can range from light brown to yellow and even gray. Blue eyes are associated with the gene for a merle coat. This dilutes the eye pigmentation. Siberian huskies have piercing blue eyes that are genetically unrelated to coat color. All puppies' eyes are blue when they first open but brown-eyed dogs turn to brown within a week or two. Chesapeakes have amber to yellow eyes, so they stay blue or blue green longer. The faster they turn, the darker the eventual eye color will be. The dog in my avatar, Panda, had blue eyes til she was almost 6 mos. Like all Labradors, the chocolate-colored ones have a soft and sweet behavior. The eyes are the passage to the soul of a Labrador. Friendly and loyal, the eyes of a Lab tell the story of this attractive breed. Raised to hunt, recover and rescue, this dog has resilience and energy to spare, which makes it a good hunting partner.

The number of Silver Labradors with Blue Eyes in the United States has increased significantly over the past several decades.. Despite the long-lived controversy surrounding the purity of breeding of silver labs, they're still an extremely popular dog. A lot of breeders actually specialize in breeding nothing but Silver Labrador Retrievers, and the demand for these beautiful dogs has grown. Once puppies are 10 to 14 days old, their eyelids open, states Pet Coach. The puppy's eyeball is still immature at this point and will have a blueish-grey color. The iris is the portion of the eye that appears blue, and the cornea may seem to be transparent. About two years ago, my fiance and I bought a pure-bred yellow lab with papers. She has brown eyes, but some of the other pups in the litter had blue eyes. They were about 8 weeks old when we looked at them. Now she just had a litter of pups about 3.5 weeks ago to a pure bred yellow lab (also with papers) and two of her pups came out with blue eyes. Silver Lab Puppies have been produced since 1950. In the debate of Silver Lab with blue eyes, some are in favor of this breed. Whereas, quite a few are against this breed due to its authenticity. Also, people think three types of Silver Labrador Puppies including black, yellow, and chocolate.

Some of us have beautiful merle coats, and the occasional blue eyes may be an extension of the merle pattering and are what secures us a spot in this roundup of dogs with blue eyes. Some of us may. Some puppies eyes are bluer than others, and some can even have a slightly grayish appearance, at least at first. Puppy's eyes start out lighter in color because the iris lacks melanin. As your puppy grows, his eye color will get darker depending on the concentration of melanin in his eyes, says Daily Dog Discoveries . Just a bit more information - chocolates and Dudley yellows (yellows with chocolate/liver pigment) can have blue or green eyes as puppies which change to light brown/amber color when they mature. All of the dogs here that said they had blue eyes as pups fall into that category. Our Dudley Lily had green eyes as a little pup and now has hazel eyes. Most of her offspring have pink noses; some light paw pads, but all have their yellow lab daddy Otto”s dark rimmed dark eyes. Lily is a total clown and never misses out on fun with the young ones. We discovered she was a Dudley when we Googled her green eyes as a puppy.